To:THE PEOPLE’S COMMISSARIAT OF AGRICULTURE AND THE STATE PUBLISHING HOUSE

Written:Written on August 7, 1921Published:First published in July 1924 inZhiznNo. 1.

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      Moscow,Volume 35,

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ComradeTeodorovich (P.C.A.) andthe State Publishing House

Amongthe new books I have received from the State
Publishing House is

SemyonMaslov: “The Peasant Economy”. 1921.5thed.!
(or4thed.).

Lookingit through, I see that it is a dirty bourgeois
little book from beginning to end, stuffing up the mind
of the muzhik with sham bourgeois “scientific” lies.

Nearly400 pages, and nothing about the Soviet system
and its policy, about our laws and measures for transition
to socialism, etc.

Onlya fool or a malicious saboteur could have passed
this book.

Pleaseinvestigate and send me the names ofallthose
responsible for editing and publishing it.

V.Ulyanov(Lenin)Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars